Living On One Dollar Analysis

The documentary titled "Living On One Dollar” was an emotional piece that demonstrated how humans in impoverish countries manage to survive with very little income. What was amazing about the film, is the fact that these four college students named Zach, Chris, Sean, and Ryan just didn’t read facts and talk about the problems in our society, instead they gave the audience an first-view perspective, by placing themselves in the poverty-stricken country of Guatemala, as they attempted to live off one dollar a day for 56 days. The reason they decided to live off just a dollar a day is due to many residents being informally employed, therefore their pay is very unpredictable. Zach and Chris imitated this scenario by drawing a number of 0-9 from a hat each morning. In addition to managing off a small amount of money a day, they
This fact expresses that many countries all over the world are in the lower-income status. If we refer to Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs we will realize that many of the physiological levels aren’t being met adequately across the world. Food and water is one of the three essentials to living, along with breathing. In these lower-income countries these items are scarce and many humans wound up dying from starvation or dehydration. This isn’t something that I have to deal with in my life. I have unlimited access to quality food and water. I even have a variety of choices as to what to eat. Many people in lower-income countries may not have a choice. As we witnessed in the documentary “Living on One Dollar” many families in Guatemala either eat tortillas, rice, or beans and rarely anything else. People in lower-income countries normally have absolute poverty. According to our textbook one in five people over the world are at risk of absolute poverty. In the U.S. even the less fortunate person is in a relative poverty society, which means there is